Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-23
THE EASTERN SHORE.
MIIrrRg OF THE ACc0NAcK ZAP rsr
ASSOCIATION ADJOURNED SUNDAY.
Further Particulars Of the Late Railroad
Accident Politics-A Caustic
Letter, &c.

Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch)
ONANcocK, August 20, 1887.
The Accomack Baptist Association,
representing seventeen churches in Ac-
eomack and Northampton, has been in
session at Bethel church, twelve miles
north Of this place, since Thursday,
and will adjourn tomorrow. Among
the visitors from distance are Rev. Ii.
M. Wharton, of Baltimore Rev. 8. L.
Clopton, of Richmond; Rev. Mr.. Han
dy, Of Pocomoke, Nd; Rev. NJ. =.
BEAD, of Franklin Rev. r. W. Grid
lin, OF Brambleton Rev. Mr.. Lennox,
Of Crozier Theological Seminary; Pro-
fessor Brewer, Of Murfeesboro' Female
College, N. c., and DR.. Vaughan, of
the Chester Female Institute. Two new
churches on the Eastern Shore were
received into the association. and
also the Hampton church from the
Dover Association. All the churches
in Accomack have been supplied with
pastors during the past year, but the
churches in lower Northampton have
been without q pastor since last fall.
Rev. j. II. Barnes, Of Richmond, has
recently accepted call to the pastorate
of these churches.
The subject of education came up for
discussion this morning, when interest
ing speeches were made by Rev. Messrs.
Handy, Read, Street, Bundick, and
others.
The old officers were reelected, and
Chincoteague Island was selected as the
next place of meeting, with Rev. j. $.
Wharton to preach the Introductory
sermon.
The railroad accident that occurred
yesterday near the place where the as
ISOLATION is holding its meetings has
caused much sympathy for the unfor-
tuDate victims. Mr.. Lewis Byrd. who
was so seriously injured, is a highly
esteemed young man, and was married
only few years ego to daughter of
Captain John Summers, of Muddy
Creek. There were four persons in the
vehicle at the time it was struck 10y the
train. They were on their way to at
tend the afternoon session of the asso-
citation, and heavy rain was falling at
the time. They had their umbrellas
up and the noise of the rain and the
thick underground on both sides of the
road prevented them from hearing or
seeing the train until they were on the
track and the train was too near TO be
stopped. The horse was struck about
the middle and ground to fragments by
the wheels. One side of the vehicle
was torn away, and Mr.. Byrd, who was
sitting on the front seat, was thrown
over thirty feet on hard embankment,
having his left hip-bOne fractured in
two places and his collar-bone broken.
Samuel Vessels, a boy of ten years,
who was sitting beside Byrd, was thrown
ont and had both bones in his left leg
broken. Mrs. Byrd's dress was torn
to pieces, but she escaped with some
severe bruises and contlsions Robert
Taylor, the other occupant of the We
hicle, saw the train in time to Jump
ont and escape injury. DIR. Bowdoin,
who is attending the wounded parties,
says that while it is yet too soon to
ascertain the extent of Byrd's internal
injuries, the chances are that he will
recover. The boys leg will not have
10 he amputated, as was at first
thought
me following have been ar- '''H'eu
delegates 10 represent Accomack III tAN /
Democratic convention that is to assem- |
be at the Agricultural Fair-Grounds on
the 3lst instant to nominate iloater |
delegate from Accomack and North
amptCn:
fungoteague-Alfr,d 5. Kellam, q. |
/. Doughty, Joseph J. Wescott L. -.
Ames, 3. VI. Mears. and :. b. Bull.
Lee-John W. q. Blackstone, John
W. Edmonds, DIR. John ". Kellam,
Thomas W. Russell, Frank Z. Brent,
II. Il. Boees, George W. McMath,
and Richard ". Ames.
AlatomSin-Alfred ". Short DIR. 4.
D. L. Ewel, W. j. Sonmers, S. Up.
shur Byrd, James j. Hickman, and
John d. Wimbrough.
Administration Z. Selby, Cornelius |
r. Taylor, James W. Broughton, J.. }.
Taylor, John ID. Parsons, and Sidney |
NJ, Hancock.
Chincoteague William }. Matthews
and James NJ. Burch.
Dr. George I. 6carbureh, physician
to the county Jail, publishes in the
Peninsula ERtcr2.risc rather caustlc
criticism on the action of the Board OF
Supervisors in refusing to adopt some
decisive measures to improve the SAM
tary condition OF the Jail as recon-
mended in his recent report. The jall
is an old brick structure with only two
rooms and no cells, and is surrounded
by high brick wall, which shuts out
fresh air. and with the vile odors rising
from the sink in the yard renders the
life of the prisoners in the summer sea-
sonalmost insufierabIe. nr, Scarburs"
concludes his letter as follows The
Jail is disgrace TO the county, and the
Board ofSupervisors should be ashamed
TO allow its removal to go by default. "
The Eastern Shore Agricultural Fair
will begin on the Goth day of August
and continue four days, Those who
have the matter in hand hope to make
the exhibition this year the best ever
held on the Eastern Shore.
II is not until the canp-meetngs
and fairs are over that the people here
take much interest in political matters.
No candidates for the General Assem-
bly have as yet announced themselves,
but several are known to be on the
anxious bench. hALLlAs.